Shared Network HDD

[Kooldino]

Does anyone know of any good, reasonably priced standalone network hard drives that I can just plug in and share?

[schmosef]

Western Digital just replaced their NetCenter line with a World Book line.

They both do what you want. You might be able to find a clearance deal on a NetCenter.

The NetCenter is 10/100Base-T Ethernet and the World Book is 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet.

I think that Maxtor/Seagate has an equivalent model, but I'm not positive.

Incidentally, I'm pretty sure I read that the NetCenter runs on linux. I remember reading a review from a guy who figured out (I think by examining the firmware) that it wasn't running the latest release and wondering how hard it would be to update by manually recreating a firmware image.

Note that I had issue with the Netcenter locking up when used for BT. The solution was to turn off preallocating space in the BT client. WD tech support was less than useless.

[Kooldino]

Thank you.

[az]

Linksys NSLU2 - you plug a USB harddrive into it. It's cheap, runs Linux and can be modified to run a media server (it can even be overclocked ).

[Kooldino]

Linksys NSLU2 - you plug a USB harddrive into it. It's cheap, runs Linux and can be modified to run a media server (it can even be overclocked ).

That's the router, right? I heard about that.

[az]

The linksys NSLU2 is a NAS device that allows you to access USB HDDs over a network. It's quite popular because of its hackability.

[Dr Mordrid]

ReadyNAS NV RAID5